Sa'id al-'As (Arabic: سعيد العاص; 1889 – 6 October 1936) was a Syrian nationalist, a former officer in the Ottoman army and a high-ranking commander of rebel forces during the Great Syrian Revolt against French rule in Syria and the 1936 revolt against British rule in Palestine.

[1] Ottoman rule in Syria ended in 1918 with their defeat by British and Sharifian forces in World War I.

Following the war, al-'As was among the group of former Ottoman officers who allied with the Sharifian commander Emir Faisal.

Before the judgement could be exercised, French aircraft bombarded Saqba and amid the bombing al-'As had al-Shallash released.

From there, he and Fawzi al-Qawuqji left for Baghdad in the Kingdom of Iraq, which at the time was under a degree of British military administration.

[6] When the Palestinian Arab revolt against British rule and increased Jewish immigration to Palestine erupted in 1936,[7] hundreds of Arab volunteers arrived to support the uprising, including some 200 Syrians, many of whom were inspired by Izz al-Din al-Qassam,[8] a Syrian guerrilla leader who struggled and died fighting the British in Palestine a year earlier.

[10] In 1935, al-'As had Safahat min al-ayyam al-hamraa, a collection of his memoirs on the Great Syrian Revolt, published.